Where we work
Working with natural populations is fundamental for our questions. Next to studying the little pond right by the institute in Dübendorf we sometimes travel to rather remote places, not only in Switzerland but around the world, where we collect or experiment with a wide variety of aquatic and terrestrial organisms, from aquatic invertebrates to plants, bacteria and fungi. Of course, working in the wild is only part of the projects, most projects rely heavily on high-tech laboratories where various kinds of data are collected.
Department of Aquatic Ecology
If we are not getting wet and dirty while collecting our study organisms in the field or working on underwater experiments, most of the time we can be found in the labs at Eawag in Dübendorf. There we maintain an excellent molecular genetics lab for every day genetics work, make use of high-end microscopes as well as of our superb custom-equipped lab for maintaining, breeding and examining aquatic organisms.
How to get there
Our Labs in Dübendorf are situated in the Lab Building LA and in the Aquatikum AQ, our offices are either in the Eawag Office Building BU or in the Nordost Building NO 218/219 on the Empa areal (on the same campus). Check out the plan for orange to find the buildings and their entrances.
How to get to Eawag by public transport or by car you can check here:
Find our ETH office in the SOL building (room B9.1) , Sonneggstrasse 33, 8092 Zurich.
See map below or go to the building plans of ETH Zurich.
Many of our projects rely heavily on the support from the Genetic Diversity Center at ETH. The GDC maintains a whole fleet of excellent high-end equipment and offers support for a wide range of genetic as well as genomic techniques and analyses. This allows us to work on projects at the cutting edge of science by supplementing the work we can do in our labs at Eawag with, for example, high-throughput data acquisition.
The friendly GDC team helps us with all sorts of technical and analytical questions and they offer a superb bioinformatic support. A big thank you to the GDC Team!